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by fao_ 5y ago
Have you tried reading the article? Because he literally gave himself severe brain damage / trauma from the operation: """ At first the procedure that Kennedy hired Cervantes to perform—the implantation of
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by fao_ 5y ago
You would be surprised
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by fao_ 5y ago
Oh, they did? Let's look at how America prevented Africa from manufacturing HIV treatments """ In 1997, South Africa tried one tack. It passed a law to allow the importation of patented medicines that had
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by fao_ 5y ago
> And what's the problem with living in an ivory tower, as someone who also lives in one? The stated intent of the post is "to provide an understandable notion of Monads to people who do not get them", so it seems terribly
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by fao_ 5y ago
Wooosh
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by fao_ 5y ago
Do they? I am on a team of two, and yet, I rarely have time to audit code that my fellow has written, simply because the rest of the day demands other tasks to be focused upon
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by fao_ 5y ago
> The security issues with using curl directly to my terminal feel a bit dangerous. What?
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by fao_ 5y ago
I would be, given that "AI" hasn't really performed very well on any of the problems we have thrown at it thusfar. Perhaps speech generation is the best fit, but outside of a small smidgen of realms "AI" is not real
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by fao_ 5y ago
I did try and read it, but the contrast between the green links and the background make it impossible, and actively painful to read
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by fao_ 5y ago
As someone with a friend who was on a jury that was overseeing a sexual assault casae, this is categorically false. You can do this by the numbers too, which show that it is false.
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by fao_ 5y ago
> You wrote "Citation needed" on a topic about malware Asking for a citation isn't itself denial > How is that relevant to this discussion? Nobody even mentioned twitter. The CEO of sourceforge is so desperate to say it
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by fao_ 5y ago
Would be nice if clicking the off button closed the tab
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by fao_ 5y ago
https://zombo.com
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by fao_ 5y ago
At no point did I say it didn't have malware, in fact, I explicitly acknowledged it. I have no interest in reading the comments of that person -- regardless, they already butt-in unrequited to a twitter thread I was in to do some wei
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by fao_ 5y ago
At no point did I say it didn't have malware, in fact, I explicitly acknowledged it.
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by fao_ 5y ago
Citation needed. The website is still as horrific to use as in times past. It might not have outright malware anymore, but that doesn't make it less painful.
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by fao_ 5y ago
> I believe it shouldn't be considered a derivative work Isn't the point of the majority of this document, that nobody, not individual rightsholders, nor the FSF, not even the Linux Kernel Project, has the legal authority or kn
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by fao_ 5y ago
I'm surprised this person didn't switch to using wcalc, instead of awk. For comparison: fao_@blob:~$ time $(echo '' | awk '{print (2*-1)}' >/dev/null) real 0m0.006s user 0m0.006s sys 0m0.000s fao_@
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by fao_ 5y ago
And yet there are about half a dozen other projects that I've described that cover the exact same space -- retro development, hobbyist. And they're either on Ebay for a fraction of the price, or in landfill.
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by fao_ 5y ago
> I mean, you're using a computer right now that's probably 10 times the ecological impact of an arduboy once you toss it. And you're going to go through many of them. I've gone through 3 or 4 computers in the last 20
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by fao_ 5y ago
Can't wait for the landfill to be filled with these in 10 years time... I genuinely do not understand the appeal, even as a former indie developer. I don't see why we need yet another tiny gaming console that's like the NES
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by fao_ 5y ago
Most of the people I've seen on here tend to downvote based on opinion not quality (against the T&C's / guidelines), and the 'implied verbal slap' (I disagree that it is that, but what the hell, I'll humour
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by fao_ 5y ago
The license is CC-BY-SA 4.0, so the sites that host copies of their data verbatim are (arguably) legal.
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by fao_ 5y ago
> As an artist, I can tell you that "realism" is something that we can all agree on, but that art isn't really about portraying something (or someone) realistically. In the old days, it was the only way to preserve our lik
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by fao_ 5y ago
Personally I liked using mitmproxy and Android 86x, it took a little bit of setup but was easy to use after a while
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by fao_ 5y ago
Looking at it, it looks like equal parts Zombo.com and also a scam?
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by fao_ 5y ago
Is that the version that is actually deployed to their servers, though?
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by fao_ 5y ago
Ok, sure, but "is said to provide" is not proof that it provided that. Lots of companies have put out marketing material that blatantly lied or inaccurately represented their upcoming product -- in fact not only was it more blatan
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by fao_ 5y ago
Right, and where are they used in modern text except to refer to computer-related concepts?
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by fao_ 5y ago
All of the papers you are referring to would not be available for another 20 years as of the 1980s :)

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